I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream follow up

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I didn't plan on revisiting I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. As in the classic horror DOS game. My old review was way back in 2019 a long time now. I guess time has little meaning to these protagonists. Yesterday, GOG updated the game to be the newest version. You know the same version that's on consoles earlier this year?

Here is a link to my old review of this game down below...

https://jackred1989.blogspot.com/2019/11/jack-red-reviews-i-have-no-mouth-and-i.html

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (2025 version)

Thankfully I didn't have to buy the same game again. I wasn't expecting that to happen with this since it's not an Bethesda video game. Although Nightdive was involved with this newer version. This actually on a different engine from majority of their remastered games on KEX engine. The engine in question was later used on Beat 'Em Up Collection (QUByte Classics).

Not to be confused with Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle. Which so happens to have seven beat em up games as well. A brief summary how this game works. It's based on a story of the same name by Harlan Ellison. Speaking of Ellison, he voices AM an AI that's taken over the world. For it's personal amusement forced five people into simulations representing what some considers to be their personal hell!!!

It's kinda amusing parts of this concept later used in Saints Row IV funny enough. You get five characters to play as. The game actually allows you to do their sections in any order. The endgame will follow shortly among finishing up their sections. I also gotta say there's some decent voice acting. This newer version was designed to work with controllers.

Unfortunately my controller didn't work with the game. Which is just a minor setback since it's a horror point & click game. I love how each of their stories differs so much. At the same time, all of it ties in together because AM torturing them all. It's very sadistic of a concept as inhumanly possible. You also get a decent size inventory system.

I dislike when you are limited how much you could use. I know some prefer it to be more limited. Which does make some of those similar style games more difficult. Sometimes forces in some back tracking. There was some back tracking during my newer playthrough. You might be surprise some of the topics this game covers.

As for achievement/trophy hunting it's easier than expected. You can find plenty of guides to make sure you get them all. It doesn't even include an achievement/trophy for beating the game. Not to mention, Nimdok's section lacks achievements/trophies altogether. To me both of those decisions was rather unusual.

Then again this game is rather unusual to begin with. I kinda hope the same engine gets used on a newer version of Harvester. This wasn't meant to be a scary game. I do see ways it could scare some people though. This is more about some twisted logic than anything else. Maybe not as out there as The Dream Machine.

Another horror point & click game I need to eventually finish. If you wanna see some weird stuff go play that!!! Back to this, it will take you a few hours following an guide to beat the game. It heavily plays off a moral system. If you keep doing good things, it'll help your chances at beating AM later. But you keep doing bad things not so much.

Honestly, a great game that does such an system is Fallout: New Vegas. There's some complexity within it's surprisingly simplify design. Here's a game you could die in if you aren't careful. Thankfully for the most part you can take your sweet time to play the game. I always welcome that for games you have a lot to do before finishing out sections.

Yes this game held up better than I expected. This is a sleeper hit for the genre. There's plenty of YouTubers that covered the game over the years. There's some cool bonus stuff in the newer version. Nothing actually new within the game itself. You can check out some stuff like listening to songs from it's soundtrack.

I will say this game plays a lot better than what I remembered of the DOS version. I also wish I could figure out to make the game's screen smaller. A lot of stuff you gotta do isn't that clear to figure out on your own. Unless you played through the game enough times. Games like this I prefer to play em windowed.

Basically it doesn't cover the entire screen. You could easily look up stuff. To be fair, it works much better than the original version in that area. If you tried to look stuff up while playing DOS games. The screen suddenly becomes smaller. It doesn't fit properly when you make it bigger. Unless you know how to fix it.

Thank god I never had that issue with this newer version. This is quite faithful to the original version. On those grounds the original story this game based on. I think the author who passed away would've enjoyed this version of the game more. This was a great remastered of a forgotten classic. I do recommend more people check this game out soon.

Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th (2000) review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, there was another horror parody movie about Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Which so happened to come out the same year as Scream 3 aas well as the original Scary Movie. It's called Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th. I recently watched this on Tubi I'll give you my thoughts over reviewing the movie.

Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th (2000)

Just like the original Scary Movie. Despite all the movies they parodied. It mostly was parodying the original Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer respectively. This actually came out last in the year of 2000. I strongly felt this is ripping off the original Scary Movie more than anything. Some of the same scenes gotten parodied.

Simply done differently to the point they were made to be incredibly stupid. Not even five minutes into the movie hiding it's a horror parody movie. This is much less focus than Scary Movie. I even felt Scary Movie 2 that parodied a lot more movies was done better!!! Originally the killer wore a hockey mask.

The killer stupidly caught his mask on fire. Which melted to look like an huge Ghostface mask. Honestly I prefer that later mask more. This movie barely takes itself seriously. Even when you expect it should at times. I also gotta mention the late rapper Coolio in the movie. It's a bit better of a performance than his role in Dracula 3000.

This movie is all over the place like a lot of newer parody movies. Nothing truly comes together at all. Currently the worst Ghostface horror movie I ever seen!!! None of the characters were remotely likeable. The closest characters I liked so happened to be played by Tom Arnold. I didn't expect Arnold to be in this movie!!!

There's some rather loose horror references. Like this kid dressed up like Chucky. Then says the famous Good Guys line. Honestly, Stan Helsing was a more entertaining movie than this!!! This high school has so many classes that couldn't be in real high schools. A lot of these jokes hit missing with little to none gets a little laugh.

The movie itself is kinda lackluster at best. Even the kills weren't anything worth writing home again. They don't even connect I Know What You Did Last Summer plot to everything. It's sorta in your face just never properly finishes. Even The Simpsons with Treehouse of Horror 10's I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did story better.

Scary Movie series had some dumb characters. Somehow the characters in this made them look like geniuses!!! There was one weird special effect usage with Coolio's character's death. It was very out of place with everything else in the movie. You can tell this had a smaller budget than Scary Movie 1.

Don't expect very much while watching this movie. Especially don't compare it to Scream series. Even Scream 3 way better than this!!! Honestly, this was better than many parody movies I seen. It felt like a huge waste of time. There's little to no real reason to watch this. Clearly 2000 had better Ghostface movies you could watch.

The main target was the new student. Which by itself doesn't make much sense. I figured to reveal who was the killer trust me it's kinda stupid. The killer was an evil twin cousin of the main security guy I'm not kidding. If you seen Scooby-Doo and the Boo Brothers movie. A similar twist involving this one character being the sheriff's twin brother.

Therefore, this cousin twist comes off being uninspired. It's almost like they couldn't think of a way to make the identity reveal interesting. The killer wore so many masks before getting fully unmasked. Arnold also in a cameo for Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. A movie I found more entertaining than this!!!

Ultimately the good Arnold character was going to let his cousin go. Not long after that, shot him a few times. As I previously stated this entire movie doesn't make any sense. The best death in the movie was accidental that caused an explosion. Honestly, how they parodied the Scream scenes were all done horribly.

I felt the jokes went on too long. Not to mention, somehow they made such iconic moments. Into some of the stupidest, terrible variations of them. It virtually screams being a rip off of Scary Movie 1. At least Scary Movie fully came together with some great jokes. The only small positive is somehow it's slightly better than Scary Movie 5.

Let's be brutally honest, that's not really saying much. Scary Movie 4 had the famous Dr. Phil and Shaq scene. A few rememberable moments following that. It's safe to say that's better than this too. Scary Movie 3 despite not being done by the Wayan brothers was a lot funnier!!! Let's not compare this to the first three Scary Movie films.

It's amazing they made Ghostface such a lackluster slash villain here. I also gotta mention the later portions took place on Friday the 13th. You know the famous bad luck days of the year? Just like how they used I Know What You Did Last Summer. This also never truly came together at all. Honestly, I recommend watching Scream series as well as the original Scary Movie.

Those Ghostface movies are way better than this garbage!!! You could easily get confuse with the weird pacing. You also get a lot of random stuff you try to see. Sometimes you might need to rewind a little bit then pause. Just to see what you miss isn't fun at all. This movie felt like a cheap excuse of making their own Ghostface movie.

Considering it's budget of $5 million dollars. I seen some amazing lower budget horror movies!!! I don't think it's about how much money you have. It's more about how well you use your money. Even Popeye's Revenge had more going for it than this!!! Let's not even compare this to Screamboat a much better lower budget horror movie!!!

Thankfully you could watch this for free on Tubi. Easily the only way I recommend watching this. Seriously whose going to buy this movie on any services? Virtually nothing works with the deaths being far less interesting than expected. Just imagine a version of Scream that's low budget filled with bad jokes you'll get this!!!

My Favorite Villains theme Death Battle episodes

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, some of my absolute favorite Death Battle episodes. Actually were more villain theme that ended up being more interesting than expected. I know this might be a little early since the new season approaching it's end. We don't know if any remaining unconfirmed match up episodes going to be villain theme or not.

I know Gru vs Megamind going to happen soon. But they were villains that ended up becoming heroes. I'm not sure if I could work with that for this blog entry. If I had chosen to wait on doing this or not. I will say this though I'm very sure it's going to be a great episode. I just felt bad for Megamind fans last year with not great stuff for Megamind franchise.

Joker vs Sweet Tooth

I actually have a personal connection on a few fronts with this match up. This was one of my most wanted child hood matches. I even gotten my original Death Battle prediction blog on ScrewAttack's front page. Back when it was ScrewAttack a long time ago. I always been a huge fan of both these evil clown characters.

My prediction came true Joker did indeed won. Sadly this might be the only time they'll do Twisted Metal on the show. At the same time, this was a rather fair match up for both characters. Right now people wants Joker to face Green Goblin!!! Yeah no thank you that's going to suck. Especially compared to this episode it's no contest.

I loved this starts as a car combat scenario. At one point, Joker gets inside his ice cream truck. The animation for the fight was amazing. Most of the episode still holds up incredibly well. Despite Season 3 being one of my least favorite seasons. This was a great one to do in 3D animation. It really lived up to my expectations.

Shredder vs Silver Samurai

I know some might be a little confusing. Not about including the solo match up with an TMNT villain character. More on the fact both of them has traits of samurais and ninjas. If you know the actual history of ninjas. They had personal dislike to how governments at that time being ran. Originally started with farmers funny enough that stood a stand against em.

Both of them has a recurring capable mutant enemy. Obviously in most TMNT franchise, Shredder is the turtles' arch enemy. Silver Samurai is one of Wolverine's greatest enemies. Considering Wolverine has hundreds of years worth of experience that's saying something. It's a rather unique take on the concept of ninja vs samurai.

Silver Samurai had superior armor with his mutant powers increases his sword's cuts. Not a lot of people knows main TMNT comic version of Shredder. Actually mastered most fighting styles like Wolverine. I'm very surprised they didn't use that in their long list of arguments. I was quite happy to see Shredder on the show.

Carnage vs Lucy

This was a rather unexpected one for it's time. Literately no one knew this was coming when it gotten announced. In fact, at the time most DB viewers didn't even know who Lucy was. Of course I did since I seen the show. I later fully read the manga series as well. This is more of an antihero taking on an villain.

Lucy is essentially a neutral character. She also suffers from multiple personalities. One of her newer personalities is such a sweet person. As the events went on, she ended up doing some good things. It doesn't change the fact she murdered a lot of people. She has some form of humanity while Carnage virtually none at all.

I am a huge fan of both these characters. I really was expected they went for Carnage!!! Easily, among the most evil of Spider-Man's enemies. Then we have this chick of a nearly extinct species. Who has many invisible, longer arms. Capable of easily ripping humans apart with ease. This sounds like a great one to do for an Halloween episode right?

Ultron vs Sigma

Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite took away some of it's appeal. I really glad they didn't do Ultron vs Brainiac. Which in recent years I kept finding to be a bit boring. Especially compared to this one what a great idea!!! Two computer viruses with some strong connections. Sigma was originally meant to fight against Mavericks.

He ended becoming the worst of them through a weird fuse infection thing. He was designed to not get infected by the Maverick Virus. Ultron is usually fighting the Avengers. It's not often he fights anyone alone either. This AI was so dangerous, they even attempted to prevent his creation. Obviously they couldn't stop that from happening like Skynet lol.

Oh come on you knew that Terminator joke was coming lol. I also love they went for a war theme. At the time, we needed a better example than Eggman vs Wily. Someone had to say it oh okay!!! I simply love everything about this episode. I would even dare to say these two are virtually the same character.

Ganondorf vs Dracula

Easily among my most personal favorites. I always disliked Ganon's original episode. No I didn't want him to die because he killed Bowser either. It just came off as a rather unfair match up that's rigged. Bowser had no real way to put Ganon down for good. Despite how ridiculous he truly was with magic. Not to mention both these matches could be recreated in Super Smash Brothers series now.

Now putting Ganon against Dracula was pure genius!!! Not only this made more sense than his last episode. You also could argue they virtually are the same character as well. Even bringing in their original game's release dates. Ganon came first by couple months in 1986. Although the United States gotten the original Castlevania first by a few months the following year.

Two dark lords with rather impressive feats. Who wouldn't wanna see these two go at it? Even death is a small thing they always come back. Both widely known for impressive magic usage. A lot of big named villains under their command. A truly sick 3D animation fight. This is one of my absolute favorite Halloween Death Battle episodes to date.

Venom vs Crona

This would be a spiritual successor to Carnage vs Lucy. Which does get referenced in the actual episode. I simply love the concept of this match up. It's essentially two on two with both duos having a rather unique connection. Both had a parasitic partner that's more ready to fight. At times must deal with their human hosts in many situations.

The fight animation was amazing stuff. It's a match up as soon as I seen. I already knew which duo going to win. This was a great one for Halloween as well. What surprised me was their actual connections thank you Death Battle wiki. I was happy Soul Eater finally gotten onto the show. More recently with Maka vs Ruby another great episode as well.

I also love how unexpected of a match up this was for it's time. Crona's gender I don't think ever gotten revealed. It didn't affect things much though. These two duos were vastly different in many ways. I actually wish the fight was a little bit longer. I'm quite happy with what we were given as well. It was a great introduction for Soul Eater on the show.

Lex Luthor vs Doctor Doom

I know hard to believe any Marvel vs DC match up made the lineup here. Let's be honest these two has a rather impressive list of feats. I'm a bigger fan of Doctor Doom myself. This was a little closer than what I was expecting honestly. The fight song I absolutely love it!!! This was both characters' second episode on the show.

I actually felt for Doctor Doom it truly was his best to date. I kept going between both of Luthor's episodes honestly. I seriously love both those episodes a lot as well. I knew Doctor Doom had some critical advantages. If anyone had a great chance lasting a long time it's Luthor. To be fair, on both his episodes they kept mentioning kryptonite weaponry isn't the best.

I would be more terrified of the man who easily steal deity's powers with a device. I simply love everything about this episode. Both of them are heavily massive pain in the buttocks for everyone. I was really happy with the actual episode. I couldn't even change a single thing either. Honestly, it's a great episode representing villains on the show.

Goku Black vs Reverse-Flash

Hell yeah I really love this episode!!! Two broken time theme evil doppelganger villains going at it. Goku and The Flash with some notable changes. Reverse-Flash actually has more crazier abilities from his good counterpart. Goku Black also differs in a few ways from how Goku fights as well. Considering this was added in towards an end of a season it's great!!!

Both couldn't stay dead regarding different time related factors. Let's put it this way if neither had a solid way to put the other down. This actually would've been a fight with no end. I love time travel gotten used in the actual fight. They even tie it in with another Flash episode. I got a lot of respect for Reverse-Flash from The Flash show on The CW.

I personally do not like Goku Black at all!!! In fact, when he's about to die the first time. I really lit up with such joy god I must be a horrible person lol. I also love how they differ from their hero counterparts. At the same time, this ended up being more unique and exciting. This episode does a great job with it's creativity.

DIO vs Alucard

Another personal favorite among their Halloween episodes. Two unusual manga/anime villains going at it. Alucard had a few million souls with a rather long list of abilities. DIO has two Stands with The World capable of stopping time. Vampires is one of several types among demons for those didn't know. However in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, vampires aren't demons there.

Two vastly different vampire characters. Alucard started as a villain that ended up becoming an antihero. DIO was the main antagonist of two Parts in the original JoJo universe. Parts 1 and 3 for anyone curious there you go. I really love every aspect of the entire episode. The fight song is among my favorites for an Halloween episode.

It's crazy we get a vastly different portrayal of Dracula from the Castlevania version. This was a weird yet unique vampire episode. You may never see anything like it ever again!!! I'm actually a huge fan of both these characters being more of an Alucard fan truthfully. I'm glad another vampire won on the show.

Black Adam vs Apocalypse

This was a rather huge deal for me. Back when an friend's private chat on Facebook had four people. Majority of the group sided with Black Adam. I was the odd one out choosing Apocalypse. Then Apocalypse won on their show surprised all three of them. I also previously done a few fight predictions on this match up.

I do agree this had to get done on the show. Back when there's a few possibilities left for Marvel vs DC episodes. I'm a huge fan of both these characters being more of an Apocalypse fan. I'm more of an X-Men fan in that regard it shouldn't that much of a surprise. I absolutely loved almost everything about the episode.

I personally wish they would've changed some of Apocalypse's voice overs. It was a bit trickery to understand some of the stuff he's saying. I know both has an Egyptian background. I actually meant how his voice over said some lines was a bit difficult to make out among hearing it. Other than that, the fight song is among my favorites as well.

Sauron vs Lich King

I actually predicted in a old video. Sauron was going to face Lich King from Warcraft. My other main guess was Voldemort from Harry Potter. Personally hell yeah they went with the more bad match up!!! These two are strikingly similar even with major differences. A lot of DB viewers didn't properly understand The Lord of the Rings franchise especially Sauron.

I knew Sauron was going to easily win this fight. Some could view it a bit rigged due to how Sauron gotten defeated in the canon of the stories. I like both represent the opposite environments. Sauron has this sick darker, lava possibly hellish theme. Lich King was more of the colder, ice environments. This by itself gotten me very interested.

The 3D animation alone was among my favorites to date. Sauron's 3D model was truly amazing!!! It's no secret I really love this episode with a huge passion. I do like medieval stuff to a degree see what I did there? LOL on a more serious note they nailed it perfectly. I would love more of either franchise on the show in the near future.

Frieza vs Megatron

I gotta give this one credit right out the gate. For a match up I didn't want, it quickly gotten me sold. Among first seeing the full fight animation. Some question some aspects of their research. Who truly is more powerful no longer matters because Frieza found a faster training method. Even if Megatron had the stats, Frieza wasn't far behind.

I simply love we put an powerful alien against an powerful giant robot on the show. This shouldn't work at all honestly. Somehow it works incredibly well!!! I really enjoyed the entire episode as a whole. I never considered this match up prior to it's announcement. Possibly due to not even knowing it was a thing either.

Thanks to Death Battle wiki pointing out their connections. These two were more similar than I even realized!!! I will confess I was rooting for Frieza there I said it. I don't think any version of Megatron boring either. I just knew their otaku bias was going to show up again. For such a weird mess up, it earned my respect.

Galactus vs Unicron

Now here's a rather epic match up I wanted for a long time. In fact, most of the viewers on this show as well. Two of the biggest characters they ever done!!! Both being multiversal beings with some strong similarities. Just imaging a lot of planets getting blown up gotten me excited for this. Even not having Torrian animating this 3D fight.

OMG it was truly mind blowing stuff!!! It was simply unbelievable how damn great the animation turned out to be. I absolutely loved everything about this episode. This was one of those original big requests they had for a long time to do. I had several versions of predicting this match up. My finalized prediction actually in a post I made for my YouTube account.

I ended up siding with Galactus. This was a rather complex match up at it's core. I love they really went the distance with this one. It even blew the newest version of Goku vs Superman episode away!!! Easily among my favorite season finales to date. They really done justice to both these tyrants. I personally couldn't ask for anything else.

Bowser vs Eggman

Prior to actually happening, this was one of my biggest requests to date. I know some people might get tired of Mario vs Sonic. I felt this was a rather necessary one to do on the show. Two legendary video game villains with a long list of connections. At their core, they heavily played off of magic vs science theme.

Let's be honest, this easily blew Wily vs Eggman away!!! This was both characters' second episodes. Easily they're best one on the show. There's so many crazy possibilities to consider. I loved they went for a war theme fight animation. Personally one on one could've been too short. Not to mention, it wouldn't help people understand why Bowser wins against him either.

By doing a war with their armies. You truly see how these two tyrants differ in how they do things. I confess I'm a bigger Eggman fan myself. After doing research, I quickly went for Bowser. I'll give Eggman credit he put up quite a fight indeed. This was way better than Bowser vs Ganon it's not even close!!!

Shigaraki vs Mahito (current season)

It's been a few months since they done Shigaraki vs Mahito on the show. I figured it deserved a spot in the lineup as well. I love they heavily play off don't get touch by either villain character. They had some strong similarities since Mahito was inspired by Shigaraki. We get two unique villain characters going at it.

Shigaraki showcase how he was Deku's greatest enemy. In vice versa, Mahito was lucky Shigaraki didn't kill him on the spot. I knew from my research Shigaraki going to easily win this fight. I personally do not like Mahito either. Seeing him die the fact he does actually made me quite happy. We get two vastly different written villains.

Shigaraki had a lot of tragedies in his life. Mahito was simply born out of people's inner ugliness. Shigaraki had plenty of not pleasant stuff to become an villain. Mahito was never going to be good being an pure evil cursed spirit. The fight animation was rather impressive. I simply loved everything about the episode myself.

Some of my Favorite Animals Mess Up Edition

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, Halloween is a few weeks away. I just gotten a rather unique, unexpected idea for a blog. One that perfectly plays into so many things at once. Not only I'll reveal some of my favorite animals. I'm sure most of them going to be quite scary to people. I also felt this gives you a better idea how I view so many things as well.

1. Hammerhead Sharks

Believe it or not, I do like some breeds among sharks. My personal favorite always been Hammerhead Sharks. Of course, other breeds like Great White Sharks among my favorites. I think we all can agree Hammerhead Sharks easily stands out. Such an unique head appearance. You could never confuse it with any other shark breeds.

Some franchises had rather interesting usage of this shark breed. Let's take the cartoon show Street Sharks for an example. The four brothers gotten mutated by Dr. Paradigm. Each became an humanoid shark creature with Jab being mixed with Hammerhead Shark. I simply love the appearance so much of this shark.

2. Piranhas

One of my personal favorite fishes in the world. So happens to be one of the most vicious in groups. Piranhas are actually worst to be swarmed by in the water than most shark breeds. I also thought their actual appearance was interesting. They easily stand out from most fish breeds. David Copperfield once done a water tank magic trick with them.

By now this should give you an idea which dangerous creatures I think interesting. Piranhas should get their own signs. Don't go into the water because of piranhas are in there thing. Although they easily could've close off those locations to save em the trouble. Piranhas are as basic and primate as fishy possible.

3. Anacondas

Me and my wife are huge fans of snakes in general. I easily could've went with several venomous snake breeds. The one snake breed I always found the most interesting was Anacondas. The largest snake breed in the entire world. These snakes can easily eat full grown people. It's no surprise there's movies about them attacking people.

It's true some smaller snake breeds is worst when it comes to getting bite. Some of the most venomous snakes differ in the amount of venom they give out. To me, getting suddenly crushed by an Anaconda worst than that. It's difficult to imagine the actual size of them too. Anacondas are such amazing snakes in what they do.

4. Colossal Squids

Squids are largely similar to each other. Which is similar to octopuses with some notable differences. Then we have Colossal Squids. Easily among the biggest sea creatures of it's type in the world. These squids are quite massive in size. Just like Anacondas, it's difficult to imagine. Unless you actually seen one which I never had myself.

Thankfully they appear in deeper sections of the ocean. Similar depths requires deep ocean machinery to explore due to intense water pressure. Which gets stronger the deeper you go. This by itself makes it truly terrifying to run into any Colossal Squid. Your life already in danger before that happens already makes such an creature scary to encounter.

5. Giant Centipedes

I confess I always found the actual appearance of centipedes very interesting. Most of their breed has a long body with a lot of legs. It's hard to believe notably bigger centipedes exists!!! They hunt a notable variety of animals. Not to mention, they are also venomous making them quite scary. They are essentially insect variation of snakes if you wanna be technical about it.

Centipedes in many ways was used in manga/anime franchise Tokyo Ghoul. Some aspects were used for the protagonist's powers. This further makes any centipedes even scary if you seen or read that franchise. Especially the famous torture scene with an centipede. Now stuff like that is nightmare fuel!!!

6. Japanese Spider Crabs

Being a life long Otaku along with my wife. I also ate a lot of crabs in my life time. I even had a rather expensive crab cake meal for an Christmas Eve dinner a couple years ago. It shouldn't be a surprise Japanese Spider Crabs I find quite interesting. Just look them up it'll surprise you. It looks like a greatly exaggerate drawn crab on paper I'm not kidding.

The actual appearance of this crab is ridiculous!!! Just look at the length of their claw limbs. It looks sorta like some spiders than an actual crab. Can you imagine any chef attempting to get all the meat out of this crab? I'm sure Chef Ramsay could easily do it with his amazing track record. I think this creature speaks for itself.

7. Humpback Anglerfishes

When you got deep enough in the ocean. Where it's mostly dark several fish breeds are found there. My personal favorite among them was Humpback Anglerfish. Such an scary appearance for a fish right? This fish has an additional part attached to their heads to light up. A more wtf Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer direction.

They often use this light to trick their prey getting too close to devour em. I gotta mention look at those vicious teeth!!! Clearly they never been to an dentist lol. On a more serious note, they don't go beyond the darker sections of the ocean. Again you may need machinery to go down that far. I always found this among the most unique looking fishes I ever seen!!!

8. Poison Dart Frogs

I know this was a rather odd choice. People are more familiar with the lesser shiny appearance frog breeds. Thankfully those breeds aren't poisonous. You could get warts from touching em though. Now Poison Dart Frogs are notably somewhat colorful, shiny in comparison. They are often smaller than you expect them to be.

The reason for their actual appearances is what they usual eats triggers it. Basically they eat not safe stuff that makes em poisonous. The bigger issue is they love to attempt splitting poison at their preys. Sometimes you can't tell when they are about to do that. I just find this particular frog breed so interesting in the many ways it stands out.

Conclusion

I gotta be honest this turned out to be more fun to write. Maybe next year depending on things. I could do a follow up entry to this. I'll try to be a bit more creative with that. I also confess the most recent of these creatures I liked was Japanese Spider Crabs. I also left off creatures I always felt more God has an amazing sense of humor lol.

If this made you felt somewhat uncomfortable. Then I done my job since it's meant to play off that aspects. Regarding Halloween is literately around the corner now. Again this was an random idea I chosen to run with. Just to see where it could go. There's also a possibility I could do a safer animals variation of the concept as well.

Animals that's not dangerous or doesn't often attack humans. Which could be a fun topic on it's own honestly. I would say this should give you a lot of ideas. How out there I view such dangerous creatures. If you encounter any of these. I hope you came prepared especially the poisonous ones I listed.

More thoughts on Garry's Mod

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I been wanting to do a follow up entry on Garry's Mod. I already reviewed the game back in 2020. Don't worry I'll make sure to link that review down below. More recently I had an YouTuber named Broken Controller Club react to three of my favorite games. Of course, I had to throw out Garry's Mod among them.

Here's a link to my Garry's Mod review

https://jackred1989.blogspot.com/2020/08/jack-red-reviews-garrys-mod.html

Here's a link to that YouTube video and thanks again to Broken Controller Club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hDPU9D7lfI&t=1939s

Just in case anyone was wondering I also selected Cultic and Saints Row IV.

On and off, I really wanted to add more of my thoughts on Garry's Mod. Let's be honest, a lot been more possible in that game since my review. If you wanna consider this as a follow up review you could. This is more of me expressing my huge passion for the game. Still among the most creative video games I ever played!!!

I found out about some rather ambitious mods you can get. There's a mod capable of fully recreating video game maps. We are talking some Grand Theft Auto game maps. There's a famous video showcasing GTA: San Andreas map in Garry's Mod. I recalled that quickly blew my mind!!! There's an even crazier scale mod to potentially recreate an universe.

I am not an expert in any categories regarding space neither the universe. I just know an universe is ridiculously massive in size. You got a lot of planets with a ridiculous amount of stars. Somehow a modder pulled this off is truly impressive stuff. There's an insane amount of character mods. I don't even think the game has a real limit how many you could have installed either.

I do gotta point out some mods won't work unless you have a few other mods. Some of the truly ambitious, bigger scale mods might require a better computer to more properly run em. Stuff like this is only the beginning what could possibly follow afterwards. Just imagine the day, someone found a way to recreate the multiverse within an video game.

For those that doesn't know what an multiverse is. Imagine a lot of universes but each one simply parallel to the universe you're from. All of them part of a lineup within an multiverse. Yes the concept can go even crazier with omniverse. Which is essentially that except it's all multiverses instead. I highly doubt that's possible even in Garry's Mod and I dare the craziest modders to attempt this!!!

You could have enough weapons equipped. To the point you keep pressing down to surprisingly find more weapons. Which I never seen outside of Garry's Mod. You easily could have enough weapons to be an one man army more so than John Rambo!!! Some mods slightly or notably improve several aspects. Including some of the features you could use in the game.

Now some of these are quite impressive. Some of them are just mind blowing they suddenly made Garry's Mod way better!!! In nearly every possible aspect you could mod. Garry's Mod is easily among the most moddable video games I ever experienced in my entire life!!! Even smaller stuff like walking can easily become the stuff of legends!!!

Garry's Mod has a huge community. A lot of locations from pop culture to shows been fully recreated. One of my personal favorite levels someone made was based on Courage the Cowardly Dog. I previously stated that to be my favorite Cartoon Network show. They also a few months ago in an update.

Added more stuff to your default selection among the characters you could use. Pulled from Half-Life 2 Episode 1 and 2 respectively. You could spam a lot of characters at a fast rate. If they aren't moving, it won't affect things much. If they are going to move like you chosen enemies to spawn. At a point you may experience a little to an insane amount of lag.

Lag could cause situations to suddenly become worst in this game. Garry's Mod also has an option before you get started. You can activate invincible which is great for truly insane mods. Any decent nuclear weapon mods being a great example. A decent nuke mod can instantly kill every enemy on the map!!!

Occasionally you'll find poorly programmed mods. Some of those surprisingly works while others not at all. Majority of the mods is very decent from what I experienced. If you could find the best of them though. Just an handful of those you'll be playing Garry's Mod for a long time. We're talking about a game all about creativity after all.

A lot of your fantasies could be recreated. I didn't say they were all good ones either lol. So many franchises recreated in Garry's Mod. I probably have such a long list to showcase them all. This list would've easily made this blog entry a lot longer by itself I'm not kidding. This is a very popular Steam game I deeply enjoyed.

It's also great if you wanna get some rage out. Personally, I find some sick weapon mods. A lot of times it's directly pulled from classic FPS games. At times, I try to be a bit more creative with my selection. Just to spice things up for the upcoming madness sections. What's even crazier is just like the first two Doom game mods.

People actually were creative enough to recreate several game play styles in this as well. If you plan on doing multiplayer sections you'll need to cut back a lot on mods. There's a lot of people creating multiplayer modes for this!!! One of my favorite mods that's a little difficult to find. There's a particular weapon crate mod that quickly gives ammo for any selected weapon at a faster rate.

You can quickly refill to max ammo being 9,999 for every weapon with ammo. A couple months ago, I seen Dino Crisis 2 with increasing ammo capability for an shotgun with that much ammo!!! Also that includes every firearm in the same game. Just to confirm it's not often I seen guns with that much ammo in video games.

G-Man is perfect to test out weapons on. A lot of weapons, he just stands there to take the punishment. It's actually possible to fully run out of ammo doing this to him. What's hilarious about this is there exists weapon mods that can quickly or instantly kill him. G-Man either immune to some weapons or has an insane amount of health.

Considering the unique nature of Half-Life. Garry's Mod was originally an Half-Life 2 mod. I wouldn't be surprise if it was possibly both in this case. So you know when weapon mods are great. If G-Man gets downed by them. Thousands of enemies quickly fall in record time to those weapon mods. Garry's Mod was never about balance.

This is the most ridiculous video game for $9.99 I ever purchased!!! Just when you thought stuff like Decision Legacy Collection being ridiculous for that price. Clearly they never played Garry's Mod before lol. This is essentially the purest form of fan service imaginable. Sure it's not official by any means. At one point, Nintendo requested mods based on their franchises to be removed.

I will confessed I seen a lot of those Nintendo theme mods still in Steam workshop. Garry's Mod going from such a small Half-Life 2 mod to such a mind blowing video game. Last recorded sale numbers were around twenty five million five hundred dollars!!! This is still among the most popular Steam games in existence!!!

So many YouTubers made videos from this game. I'm still happy they kept updating the game. The community itself is exactly why Garry's Mod being such a great video game in the first place. A lot of them further pushed the boundaries what could be done in Garry's Mod. The possibilities are truly endless with this game.

Garry's Mod is much more than a game. It's more of an unique fun experiment at it's core. Some people just crazier than others to go a lot further with their concepts. Which perfectly describes the majority of the mods supported for this game. I really highly recommend anyone to play this game. People just can't even begin to understand exactly what they're truly missing out with this!!!

Killing Time follow up blog

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, today I got more to discuss with Killing Time. As in the unique Doom clone style FPS game. This isn't necessary me rereviewing either version again. This is more of me celebrating before one year anniversary of Killing Time: Resurrected. I already played through between both versions I own three times this month.

Each run was notably different from each other. The first run was in Killing Time: Resurrected. I played through the game on Duncan mode. I confessed it was done on Easy difficulty. This version gets Duncan to constantly come after you almost the entire game. Some people might like this version more. Sometimes you never know where he'll show up.

Yes he does teleport to a degree. He will keep coming back after he's death. I notice the 3DO version takes longer overall in that regard. It can get annoying like you just wanna go up or down stairs. Well any tight space locations you can't get around him. I would say it was a little more challenge that adds a bit more.

To the overall length of the run. Now you can't rush through without Duncan putting you into a rough situation. Considering this is one gigantic map you're exploring. You can bet a lot can happen. The second run was just me replaying the original PC version. I mostly chosen to replay it to compare to the Resurrected version.

I can confirm a lot of sections are identical. Mostly getting to each section remains the same. But majority of them were notably changed in Resurrected version. I still felt this version of Killing Time easily the best within Retro Shooter Rampage Bundle. Sure in a sense it made me wanna play Resurrected version more.

At the same time, I still had some enjoyment playing this version as well. Even with some annoying flaws it has. Such as poor jumping which is required to go and from the light house. It still was a nice revisit of the game I had. Again this was done on Easy I am not sure I had the patience to do Medium. Speaking of that, I ended up going back to Killing Time: Resurrected.

This time I played through again on Medium. I also switched off 3DO version of enemies. I did notice some changes between the enemies. Maids and Clowns has to get even closer to attack you. Any enemy either firing projectiles or wielding guns was more accurate. You don't wanna get surrounded by those enemies.

I also notice regarding the difficulty, enemies takes more ammo to put down. This also affected my weapon animations. During the run it's virtually the same as the original PC version animations. Which was very cool they pulled that off. This felt like a good hybrid version. The map is still Resurrected version to clarify.

Everything wise going back to retro. It was just truly amazing Nightdive pulled that off so well. Of course, you got to deal with the ghosts. The ones that talks explaining aspects of the story differ notably in quality. Some looks a little better or worse than others. I do mostly prefer the 3DO version of enemies.

I also do prefer the newer animation recreating the 3DO version more. Not to mention, the weapon sound effects was more to my likening. All of this before October 17th is insanity. Honestly, Nightdive helped made me a fan of this game!!! Indirectly there was seeing what was going to be Sega Saturn version case in a game store a long time.

For a long time, I had a lot of interest to play that game. Which is quite rare for me even right now. I knew there was something about this game I had to play it. I am well aware both these versions are vastly different from the 3DO version. Which may never fully get rerelease. A large amount of it's content still presented in Resurrected version.

Three full runs across two versions of the same game. You can tell I'm already excited for Halloween!!! Killing Time is among my choices to play close to or on the holiday. Just not among my main choices though. I felt this game deserves more respect than it gets. Honestly, I'm just thankful that curiosity led to all of this.

Killing Time is an unique experience. I later found out a couple months ago. The original PC version actually was made from a particular version of Doom. Atari Jaguar version while using Build editor to make sections of the map. Which were transformed into the proper format that could've work on classic Doom engine.

In fact, one of it's developers worked on the famous 3DO version of Doom. I know what an connection right? Build editor is essentially a level editing program for games like Duke Nukem 3D. People with a lot of patience could make levels free. Now adding in another program to transform the format of that data into WADs essentially is mind blowing.

I'm not expert how to properly explain how complex this process is. All I do know is this clearly took a lot of time to achieve. I previously wondered why either version of Killing Time felt more like Doom than expected. Keep in mind, there is digital actors. Now I'm not sure how they gotten those unique cutscenes style to work like this.

Killing Time is much more than a Doom clone. It's more about the actual story. Majority of the enemies does get explained. If you are willing to listen to these cutscenes. This has a more Egyptian mythology to the Doom formula. Unlike most of them, this was one massive map broken up into multiple sections.

It's rather impressive this game has so many enemies!!! Plenty of secrets you may not realize was there. There's something truly special about this game Nightdive saw it too. Again I was quite hyped leading up to Resurrected version's release. This game was a surprise master piece. Like Hexen, Killing Time does enough to differ itself from Doom.

Of course, some people gets into mysteries. You get to explore an entire island as well as the Conway estate. Which is way more than what the 3DO version does. Originally it sorta plays more like Wolfenstein 3D funny enough. No one truly knows why the original PC version ended up being a vastly different version.

It's more known than another "remastered" version before Resurrected version. Yeah it was exclusive to Zoom, another DRM-Free PC gaming service. Just going off what I do know about this now lost version. You could swap between 3DO and PC soundtracks. This was meant to make the PC version a bit more playable.

Supposedly something not right happened behind scenes. No one knows what truly happened. You no longer can buy this version anymore. I never bought from Zoom altogether. I am assuming this "remastered" version wasn't good enough or wasn't as described. The later being some false information in an attempt to get people to buy.

In order to rip them off at least this could've been the situation or it stopped working who really knows. Assuming this version differs enough there's four versions of Killing Time. Keep in mind, I only played two of them myself. Obviously, Resurrected version is the true definitive Killing Time experience.

You are essentially getting the perfect composite version imaginable. Some truly nice bonus content to look at. They redesigned enough of the map to make it much easier to memorize. The challenge is more forgiving unless you're playing the hardest difficulty. Nightdive truly delivered in properly bringing this classic back from the grave.

Also as a reminder, last year they also remastered Doom & Doom II!!! Yes I still stand by my Games of 2024 ranking. I still think Killing Time: Resurrected to me is better than Doom & Doom II. I know a lot of people going to disagree that's fine. I deeply love as well as respect both remastered FPS games with a huge passion.

I figured I just get it all out. Killing Time is a game the world wasn't ready for. Until Resurrected version happened last year. In terms of being an metroidvania Doom style FPS game. There's not many FPS games I can directly compare it to. Maybe I love the Clowns and Skeletons too lol. Honestly, I have no real major issue with Resurrected version at all.

I still felt my favorite enemy remains to be the Chefs. Especially the 3DO version just works amazingly well. The one thing the PC version does I like a bit more is by saying this voice over line. "Come here!!!" you know what's waiting for you won't be pleasant. I actually like both versions of the Chefs a lot.

The closest issue being when you use no clip code. Parts of the map doesn't properly load up at times. Then again this was an ambitious FPS shooter for it's time. I guess that's to be expected though. Other than that, they truly knocked it out the park with this version. Killing Time is among my favorite Doom clones I ever played!!!

My biggest G4 rant

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, a lot of people may remember G4 as in an TV channel you watch on cable years ago. G4 actually had two major runs that both ended. I could easily add salt to changing the direction of the channel. Altering Filter as in the show that used to be all about ranking video games by votes.

Suddenly Filter started being more about pop culture stuff. Representing then newer direction of the channel. The newer G4 run also had the Completionist, a famous now controversial YouTuber. He gotten caught scamming people long story. Despite all of this, there's something that deeply gotten under my skin.

Something I always wanted to get off my chest for years. When a particular show you used to look forward to watching on TV. I still haven't seen anything like it since then. This was before achievements & trophies were a thing in gaming too. I used to be a huge fan of the show called Cheat! Not to be confused with another show called Cheaters that had reruns on the same channel.

Vastly different concept, Cheaters was exposing people cheating on their boyfriends/girlfriends. Cheat! was more about something I recalled loving growing up. Back when many video games had cheat codes. Some of which actually made em more fun to play. You sorta gotta look for em in newer games now sadly. Honestly, it's better I start from the beginning.

Cheat! used to be sponsored by Pringles yes as in the famous potato chip company. The original host was Cory Rouse that really made it an fun show to watch. You can tell he absolutely love this job. I don't recall any bad episodes with him either. There's some cool themes Rouse done they never done again. One episode was filmed at a paint ball location.

I previously taken my oldest nephew to a paint ball location. Sure it can get dangerous but still a lot of fun. At one point, he was driving an go-kart. Most G4 fans heavily remembers this version of the show. I'm personally calling it the golden Cheat! era. Later into this version's run became known as Cheat, Pringles Gamers' Guides.

Following the merger of a few channels. Cheat went back to it's original name. Following a dispute with Pringles not much is known about it. Eventually Rouse left the show following a particular October episode. I think he knew the direction the channel going in wasn't for him. Keep in mind, we still haven't gotten to what greatly disappointed as well as piss me off yet.

Obviously they had to replace Rouse with a new host. Kristen Holts now following her marriage, Kristen Adams. The result was notably mixed by the audience. Some of them including myself felt she didn't properly fill Rouse's shoes. The other half welcomed it simply because she was a beautiful woman.

Not trying to come off sexist either. She wasn't a gamer neither was Adam Sessler. Despite Sessler was a host on X-Play for many years. Later on, Adams continued the format through X-Play. Yeah what used to be it's own show gotten reduced to being part of another show. Adams never took the concept to exciting directions like Rouse previously had.

Rouse brought in real passion as well as creativity to the show. You can tell Adams was simply told what to do that's it. Sure you could blame the shift from using cheat codes to playing without em. In order to earn achievements/trophies being a notable factor in it's decline. Then again, Rouse could've kept the show fun to watch had he stayed.

I always been mixed towards Adams for a long time. She played a huge part in ruining Cheat!'s legacy. A better host would've prevented it becoming part of another show. Then again, this era of G4 already lost it's identity. They started airing non video game stuff daily. People wondered why the channel died out the way it did?

Cheat! was a show that made cheating in games fun. More recently, it brought back memories for older games. This version of the show still meant a lot to people. After Rouse left, the show never truly recovered. I even felt the editing in Rouse's episodes was way better. Not many episodes Adams done going to held up well overtime.

To me, this insane decline for a classic video game show was mind blowing. It went from being one of their finest to "What's that?" Even the MTV 2 version of Celebrity Deathmatch was better than this!!! Rouse was essential to the show surviving the merger. I don't wanna say Adams lacks talent. She previously was on American Idol years ago.

Obviously she should've went for a more musical job than this. You can tell she just didn't work at all. Again they only used her to keep men interested. Such a cheap tactic to use indeed. To be brutally honest, she wasn't that hot to me even back then. It's just sad such an iconic G4 show fell this hard!!! Possibly the worst in history of the entire channel for that matter.

Cheat! brought in a rather unique perceptive to using cheat codes. Not only that, Rouse spicing things up kept things interesting. Pringles or not, he was a major factor in that show's success. You can tell G4 didn't do their research what made Cheat! such a hit with people. Sadly if G4 kept going, Cheat! still would've gotten canned.

Either run of G4 had major issues. I'm glad Cheat! wasn't involved with the newer G4 run. Rouse was ideally the perfect host for the show. Honestly, they should've canceled Cheat! after he left. In that regard, I would've never felt the way I do following Adams hosted the show. Let's put it this way, Drew Carey had major shoes to fill to replace Bob Barker on The Price is Right show.

Carey been a worthy successor to that legacy. In comparison, Adams never came close to Rouse's greatness!!! I think another major reason why Rouse worked better. The way he interacts with the audience. It comes off like he's one of your greatest gamer friends. He wants to make sure you're having fun.

I never once felt that with Adams at all. In fact, I felt she was just doing it to get paid that's it. You can even tell at times how bored she is. I also heavily disliked the look of the show started with her hosting either. I prefer the classic Pringles tie in appearance. To me, it just felt like they had to quickly put something together.

It just didn't look like the same love neither care went into that whatsoever. I know it's been many years since Cheat! quickly discontinued while X-Play went on much longer. X-Play was among G4's longest shows. It felt like to "save Cheat!" they had to make it an session in that. Let's be honest, that further sink everything!!!

Adams had much lesser time to get things ready for those sessions. They started distancing the sessions on that show. You knew something wasn't right!!! Such a disgrace to that legacy Rouse started. I always been this passionate towards the original Cheat! series with Rouse. You just can't recreate such content anymore.

I always heavily disliked the newer version with Adams. Obviously a lot of factors led to it's demise. The beginning was when Rouse left the show. I'm sure Rouse went on to great things following the show. Honestly, I'm so mixed regarding this. I don't even think this going to be enough. For fellow Cheat! fans that felt exactly how I do.

Then you already know nothing was remotely as disappointing on the channel than this!!! Filter didn't last long when it became more pop culture. I know some might consider that a bigger offense. At the same time, even that version of the show kept people voting involved. Let's be more honest, neither were actually those shows anymore!!!

Filter was becoming more anything pop culture slowly moving away ranking things. Cheat! was becoming more of an after thought with Adams. It just never was the same ever again. It's truly disheartening G4 allowed such a downfall to happen. I'm glad G4 gone once again. If you could find any Rouse episodes I highly recommend check em out.